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What Is the Minnesota Executive Function Scale (MEFS®)?
The MEFS® is a 5-minute direct assessment of executive function for ages 2 and up. How it works, where it came from, and what the results mean.
The Science of Executive Function: What’s Happening in Your Child’s Brain
How the prefrontal cortex, reflection, and stress shape executive function in early childhood, and what the brain science means for parents.
Provision Choice and Executive Function Development
Provision of Choice is Key to Executive Function Development in Toddlers It is clear that early executive function (EF) skills are important for many outcomes
Clinician Spotlight: Executive Function, ADHD, and Academic Success
Self-regulation and Executive Function (EF) rely on three key types of brain function: working memory, mental flexibility, and inhibitory control. These highly interrelated skills are
Mindfulness & the effects of stress on childhood learning and development
Reducing Stress and Supporting Executive Function Development Stress is the enemy of Executive Function. It undermines reflection, attention, self-awareness, thinking, and problem-solving capacity. Watch the
Promoting Executive Function Skills with Reflection Training
Successful problem solving depends on reflection Successful problem solving depends on reflection: considering the information you know and how it relates to the problem at
Improving Executive Function in Early Childhood: When Less is More
Executive Function skills change significantly between the ages of 3 and 5. In this example video, Dr. Stephanie Carlson, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of
Improving Mindfulness in Children
Mindfulness impacts social and academic achievement In this video, learn how mindfulness is essential to early childhood development of academic and social skills, and how
Support Executive Function: Parents’ EF matters too!
Previously we have talked about how parents can support executive function (EF) development in young children. Specifically, parenting behaviors that are “autonomy-supportive,” meaning they actively
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